They shed blood in Europe, but enacted strict animal protection laws. The irrationality of the Nazis, gave rights even to the lobsters while they spread that he was a talking dog!
The history of the Nazis is full of inhumane war crimes. In World War II, they spread death through which they passed while treating human life with contempt.
Yet. Those who shed blood in Europe were the first to enact strict animal protection laws.
Law on the protection of animals
In 1933 Hitler took power. One of the first issues he dealt with was how to protect animals. "In the new Reich, cruelty to animals will not be allowed," he said.
Although there were some rudimentary laws, the "Reichstierschutzgesetz", the "Reich Law for the Protection of Animals", was immediately enacted, which became a compulsory subject in German primary, secondary, high schools and universities.
Hermann Goering even warned that "those who treat their animals as inanimate objects will be sent to concentration camps".
Under the new law, even lobsters had rights!
Germany became the first country to punish scientists who performed experiments in which animals were dismembered while still alive. The trap trade stopped immediately and hunting was later completely banned. Even lobsters had rights!
The need for the Nazis to show that they loved animals reached its limits, as in all matters. Provisions were made for the horses to be hoofed, for anesthesia to cut the ears of dogs, or even for crabs and lobsters to be boiled alive, "so that they would not suffer to death".
Animals were also banned from filming because they would suffer or be "injured" mentally, feeding roosters and cooking frog legs. Protected species The Germans were the first to introduce the term protected species, starting with wolves.
Animal rights, bans and hunting on Jews. The excesses of the law continued and went so far as to provide rules for the cutting of fish and the transport of animals by vehicles. The law was gradually extended to the protection of nature with many reforestations.
In 1934 the Nazis organized the first International Conference on Animal Welfare in Berlin, and a few years later banned Jews from having pets. The myth of the time said that Nazi psychologists believed that dogs were just as intelligent creatures as humans. So, with various experiments and researches, they tried to make the dogs speak the human voice.
Thus, they spread that there was a dog that when asked who Hitler was, he shouted "Mein Führer", meaning "my Führer"!
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